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Why q Lake Turned Black.
From a Columbia Is. O. Special


The story of the poisoning of Dawho
Lake, in Georgetown county, by hail
storm, as photographed, and which many per-
sons supposed to be ''ishy," has been cor
roborated in every particular by promi-
nent citizen of Georgetown, who has
investigated the matter at the request of
Gen. Greedy, chief of the signal service.
A dense mass of blackgum trees sur
rounds the lake on all sides. 1t is well
known that the leaves of this tree are
strongly impregnated with fannie acid. 1t
has also been ascertained that the bottom
of the lake contains slight deposit of iron.
The poisoning of the water, therefore, is
thus explained. The hail storm bruised and
filled the lake with the leaves and small
branches of the trees. The fannie acid
emanating from which, mingled with the
iron and formed tannate of iron, causing
the water to turn black as ink and bitter as
quinine, and poisoning the fishes by thou
sands
Some of the people living in the neighbor-
hood believe that the condition of the lake is
due to Judgment from God This lake is
in reality Godsend for many poor family
near by. They get fish from it the year
round, and if it is not replenished soon ii
will be a Judgment to them, sure enough.
Ono species of the fish inhabiting this lake
survived the singular disaster, and that was
the mud fish, winch buried itself in the mud
at the bottom and thus escaped the effects
of the poison The stencil arising from
the dead and rotten fish is de
scribed as fearful. The thousands OF
buzzards taking their departure
in the evening for their roosting places
after days feast. are described as making
noise similar to that of an approaching
cyclone On each end of Dawho lake, about
half a mile distant, is a small lake in which
numbers of fish also abound, but which
upon examination, show no signs of the hail
storm which swept over Dawho. This con
firms the belief that the direct cause of kht
disaster to the fish is due to the hailstormsut
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Savannah, Florida & Western Railway

Ian trains on this road are run by Central
Standard Time
TIME CARD IN EFFECT JUNE 10, 1887
Il Passenger trains on this road will run daily
as fOIlowe. N"NJ
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t0r wrappers only Ib oenta A hundred. 30
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RAILROADS.
s CHI E D U LIE
CENTRAL RAILROAD.
RAILROADS.
SAVANNAH. Ga. AUG. IS. Is

SAVANNAH, GA, Aug. 2S 1897
ON and after this date Passenger Trains will
~ run daily unless marked I, which are daily
except Sunday. ''
The standard time, by which these trains run
ls 70 minutes slower than Savannah city time.
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Train No. 10t leaves Guyton $40 D. M; arrives
Savannah AIS p. M
Sleeping cars on all night trains between Sa-
Vannah, Augusta, Macon and Atlanta, also Ma
con and Columbus
Train No. 3, leaving Savannah at $40 D. m.
will stop regularly at Guyton, but at no othsr.
point to put off passengers between Savannah
Train No. will stop on signal at stations ba-
tween Million and Savannah to take on passen.
gers for Savannah.
Train No. 3 will stop on signal at stations he
tween Savannah and Millen to take on passen
gers for Augusta or points on Augusta branch.
Train No. o will stop between Nfillen and Sa
vannah TO put off passengers from Augusta and
points on Augusta branch
Connections at Savannah with Savannah
Florida and Western Railway for all points in
Florida. -
Tickets for all points and sleeping car berths
on sale at City Office, No 20 Bull street and
Depot Office 30 minutes before departure Of
each train. -
j. c. SHAW G. A. WHITEHEAD
Ticket Agent. Gen. Pass Agent
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Charleston & Savannah Railway Co

CONNECTIONS made at Savannah with 81.
~ vannah, Florida and Western Railway.
Trains leave and arrive at Savannah by stand
ard time Goth meridian), which is &c minutes
slower than city time.
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NEW ORLEANS EXPRESS.
7 FLORIDA EXPRESS

4:O4 p m Ar. .Chattahoochee -. Lv II 80 a m
Pullman buffet cars to and from Jacksonville
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Orleans via Pensacola
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WEST INDIA FAST MAIL.
PLANT STEAMSHIP LINE

fLANI oIEAmohlf LINE.
MONDAY ana Lv. Tan,na Ar Thurs and
IhurS. p m Sun. pm
nueSdhy ana Ar Kew West Tu Wed. and
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Wednes. ana Ar Havana To Wed. and
sat "a m Sat. noon
Pullman buffet cars to and from New York
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The Forest Fires.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 19-Advices from south
ern Illinois say the forest fires in the cypress
swamp near Gctcold are still burning and
that there hes been great damage done 10
the Bay bottoms Three houses. several
barns and large amount of fencing have
been burned. One young man while fight
ing fire yesterday was surrounded by flames
and burned to death.
OAKLAND, ILL.,, Nov. 19.-The fire which
started in the Smith woods, one mile west
of this city, yesterday obtained good head
way, and for miles and miles westand north
itsgept everything beforeit On the west of
this woods are the Embarrass bottoms,
dense with underbrush and large jack oak
and hickory trees. These trees were totally
destroyed and with them the fencing in the
path of the flames. % the north, after
reaching the bottoms, ia a neck or stretch of
timber Is miles long. The whole neighbor
hood turned out to fight the fire, but 30 far
the efforts of the people have been fruitess.
Many farmhouses we're directly in the
track of the flames and were torn down and
hauled outside OF the fire limit. The heat
from the fire is so intense that it is impossi
BILE toget within quarter of mile oft.
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A Collision at Sea.

NEW YORK, Nov. 19.-The steamship
Guyandotte, of The Old Dominion line, came
into port last night in badly battered con-
dillon. She had been in collision at sea,
aDd her escape from destruction was some
thing remarkable. About one o'clock yes
terday morning when off the coast of North
ampton county, Virginia, near Hog Island,
the schooner Anthony Green crashed
into the after port side of the Guy
andotte. The steamers upper iron plate
WAS torn eff for length of twenty feet, and
large hole was stove in her side between
decke. The upper ratings and sides of sew
eral staterooms we're also torn away and the
jibbocm Of the schooner unroofed section
of the upper berths One Of TIE passengers
was pianed to his bed by the falling parti-
tions and debris, and only after the door of
his stateroom had been broken in with axes
and the superintendent mass removed was
he ecabled to escape The schooner was
uniuiured.
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TO.DAY's TELEGRAPHHC NEWS.
Foreign News.

LONDON, Nov. 19.-The Princess of Wales
and her children arrived at Queenborough
this morning from Denmark. They were
met by the Prince of Wales, who escorted
them to London. They were greeted 81
Enthusiastically upon their arrival in this city.
Advicts from Buenos Ayres state that all
export duties imposed by the Argentine re-;
public will be abolished on January l, 1883.
The cuthouses attached to Leopardstown
Castle, the residence of Mr.. Power. the gen.
tlemau who is to entertain Lord Harrington
during his approaching visit to Dublin,
have been destroyed by an incendiary fire.
PARIS, Nov. 19.-The Journal Des Debdts
says that the fixed intention of President
Grevy is not to resign. He does not admit
that parliamentary pressure can en- orce
presidents resignation. Such state OF
things, he holds, would be subversive OF tie
constitution. II resignation would create
mischievous precedent, as his successors
would thereby be bound to resign every
time public opinion was against them. Iii
believed that only M. Gragnon, the late Pre-,
feet of Police, and NJ. Wilson are implicated
In the late scandal.
Moscow, Nov. 19-The Moscow Gazette
says: The meeting of The Car and Emperor
William yesterday must influence the Bui.
garian question.
BERLIN, Nov. 19.-Emperor William las
conferred the order of the Black Eagle upon
Count Schouvaloff, the Russian Ambassa'
dor at Berlin.
At the Stale banquet laat evening the
Gear, in response to toast, lifted his glass
aud bowed in q particularly friendly man
ner to Prince Bismarck. Prince William
and Prince Bismarck held conference at
the house of the latter to- day.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

PITTsBURa, Nov ia sensational shoot
ing occurred in the hallway leading to the
Criminal Court room this morning. Several
months ago Thomas P Woods, married
man. eloped with his servant girl, going to
Chicago. His wife, Catherine Woods, fol-
lowed and had the couple arrested but she
was unable to prove her marriage, and they
were released. They returned to this city
q few days ago, and Woods was arrested for
desertion. This morning, while he was
standing in tue court room corridor, his wife
came up, and without warning placed re
volver close to his left ear and fired. Woods
turned his head at the moment and the ball
grazed his cheek, passing through the brim
OF his hat. Mrs. Woods attempted to shoot
again, but her husband overpowered her
and gained possession of the pistol. Chs
was arrested and will be held for hearing.
The shooting was in hearing of the court
aud was witnessed by District Attorney
Johnston and Judge Magee.
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The CROWN PR1NcE.-Prince Henry will
return to San Reno tomorrow. Prof. Vir.
chow yesterday received portion of the
matter recently discharged from the tumor
in the Crown Princes throat. He will ex.
anime it microscopically. A dispatch from
San Reno to the Berlin National Gazette
says that the Crown Prince looks we'll, has a
healthy color, and lis mind is serene. His
voice is husky, but he has no difficulty in
speaking. He continues to express hope Of
recovery. The health Of the Crown Prince
in view of the late serious developments is
remarkable. He retains his strength and
spirits, his eyes are bright and his step light.
Evidently he has braced himself to accept
the Inevitable with wonderful complsis.
apce.
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

DIR. G. S. Webb was yesterday appointed
coroner of Caroline county by Governor
Lee.
Ii is said that Mr.. ]. r. fuckers fee for
defending the Chicago anarchi:ts was FIVE
thousand dollars.
Rev. Robt. W. Forsyth, of Liberty, has
Trinity Episcopal Church in Baltimore.
Miss Lucy Ann Gordon. daughter of Sam
uel and Elizabeth G. Gordon of Prince Will
liam, died on the 18th inst She was about
70 years old.
Miss Lilly Bell daughter Of Hon. John
W. Bell, and Mr.. OTIS Bonyer, of Baird,
Texas, were married in Culpeper on We'd
nesday last.
c. T. Barksdale, the defeated republican
candidate for the State Senate in Pittsylva
MIA has served notice on Senator ]. l..
Hurt that he will contest his election.
Mr.. Abraham Mausbach, aged So yeara,
senior member of the firm Of MaDebach q
Gump, Baltimore, Wholesale liquor dealers,
died very suddenly early yesterday at Gull
pepper.
Mrs. Tyler, wife Of Mr. ]. 0. Tyler, former
owner Of Buckla and Wooden Mills and now
citizen of Liberty, died at Bucklard. Prince
William county, last Wednesday morning
Of Typhoid fever.
A stranger named W. II. Skinner, in the
grocery business at Thoroughfare Gap, and
formerly at EdentoD, n c.. died suddenly
at the. Peabody Hotelin Portsmouth, Thurs
day hight of coDgestire chill.
A member Of the Virginia Board OF Sink
ing Fund Commissioners says he reckons
| NJ bo na;d harp tho
neighborhood Of $500 for bis services as
counsel in the Virginia habeas corpus ca
| seS.
Two young men who registered at War
renton November 9TH, and bought tickets
for GoEdonsvlle, are wanted by the police
for robbery at Manassas Nov. 5th, and for
blowing open Bakers safe at Winchester,
November b.
Two hundred guests enjoyed a double
wedding reception Wednesday evening at
Tnglesde, the country home of Anton
Schwab, near Cliff Mills, Fsuquier county,
the couples being Mr. VIM. Schwnban Miss
Annie Cooke and Mr.. Ashton Ramey and
Miss Mamie Schwab.
On December q, proximo, DR.. ]. l.. Ca
bell will have completed fifty years OF ser
vice az professor in the University Of Vir
gina. His colleagues and former pupils
will on this anniversary present him with a
handsome gold goblet, suitably inscribed, as
a token of their esteem.
Full returns OF the recent election for
members of the general assembly show that
the completion of the new body will be az
follows: Senate-democrats %; republl-
cans IA. Honss of Dslegates-democrats
61: republicans, IS independent republi
cans, 1. Democratic majority on Joint bal
| lot, "a
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

A strike is threatened in the Elk Garden
coal region.
Mr.. Wharton Baker, of Philadelphia, says
the rumors about the Chinese American con
cessions having been Cancelled are entirely
without foundation.
An aerolite weighing three tons dropped
in front of the Merchants Bank, in Amster-
dam, N V, yesterday, making deep in
dentation. Local experts fed traces ofiron,
nickel, aluminium, and other metals in The
aerolite.
The national republican committee will
meet in Washington few days after Con.
gress convenes. aud the democratic national
committee will probably meet there early in
January to decide upon the times and places
of holding the next national conventions.
The international prize fight between Jake
Kilrain, of Baltimore, and Jem Smith, OF
London. will take place in Spain on Janu.
airy 3. If arrangements can be made the
match may come eff before Christmas, as
both men are anxious to have it over. The
stakes have been put up.
The Office OF First Assistant Secretary of
State has. by Secretary Bayard, been ten
dered to George L. Rives an active member
of the New York bar, and accepted. Mr..
Rives Is of Virginia family, and was born
in New York in 1S49 His grand father was
Senator from Virginia and twice American
minister at Paris.
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ANOTHER CHAPTER IN A RoMANCE.-A
Paris dispatch to the New YORK World
Gays: another chapter has been added to
the romantic history of Nine. de Po!estad,
whose strange marriage to the dying Mar
quis last year, in Washington, created such
a sensation. Nine. de Potestad was Miss
Wright, who ha6 married MIR. Bratton, from
when, after living urhappily with him. she
at length separated. Mr.. Bratton dsap.
peared mysteriously and has never since
been heard of. Mrs. Bratton obtained q
divorce on the plea of desertion. One child
was born Of the union. A rich and titled re-
latve of Mr.. Bratton recently died and title
and money are inherited by the little son of
Nine. de Potestad Nine. de P.testad
and her mother, Mrs. Wright, ara living
very quietly in cottage ia Brittany this
WINTER
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y1Re1N1A MEruoDIsr CoyrEpENcE.-Y

VIRGINIA METHODIST CoNFERENCE.-Yc
day in the Methodist Conference at Danvile, the
Rows. Bascom Dey, w. G.. Boggs Ernest Stevens
and Thomas ]. Wray were elected deacons Rev.
James A. Duncan and seven Others were advanced
the class of the fourth year. collection was
taken up to pay off tho debt on the monument to
Bishop Early, and the full amount was raised.
Dr. 2. N. Sledd submitted several recommendations
intended to advance the cause of mission work,
but action On the same was deferred One of the
interesting episodes of the days session was an
application for readmission to tho conference by
John F. Poulton, who left twenty-five years ago
to practice dentistry at Warrentoh, Va Action
on it was postponed. Last night there was mass
meeting at the Academy OF Music in the interest
Of the Young Mems Christian Association.
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TIE GEAR IN Notwithstanding ap

TIE GEAR IN Notwithstanding ap.
parently to q disagreeable necessity. the
Car yesterday vent to Berlin, and was re.
ceived with elaborate honors. Prince
William of Prussia met the imperial train at
Wittenburg, and the Gear was received at
the station at Berlin by distinguished COM
pany, composed of princes and generals.
the aged Emperor went 10 the Russian En-.
bassy to meet the Gar, and the Car visited
the Emperor at the place ofthe latter. AT
night there was q magnificent bapquet in
honor OF ths Emperor's guest Dense crowds
of people thronged the Cars route through
the city. Still there was. it is said, q bit Of
chill in the air. Prirce Bismarck is men
toned as having attended the banquet given
the Car, but his organ, tho North German
Gazette, does not refer TO his visit. The
event was ola personal and not of politi
cal character By going to Berlin tina Car
signifies merely that he does not wish to ap
pear lackingin courtesy TO the German EN-
psror. He is angry with Bismarck all the
same
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COURT OF APPEALS YEsTERDAY.-Nor-
folk and Western Railroad COMPANY against
Irvine. Writ of error and supersedeas
awarded TO the judgment of the Circuit
Court of Wythe county. rendered 14lh Sep.
TENDER, 1887.
Mutual Assurance Society against Scot
tish Union and National Insurance Compa-
ny, of Edinburg, Scotland. Argued By R.
G. Pegram. esq for plaintiff in error and
Ohio e. Kean, esq, for defendant in error
and submitted.
Weiss against Hobbs. Argued by John
Lyon, esq.,, for plaintiff in error.
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CHARGING THE DEFEAT TO MALONE

CHARGING THE DEFEAT TO MALONE
The Shenandoah Herald edited by United
States Senator Riddlebsrger. thus explains
the recent republican defeat in Virginia
"The State was lost to The republicans by
Encouragement be9otten of sefshness and
other unadorning characteristics of a party
leader whom the exercise of Unlimited au
thority since 1883 and 'S4 has, untitled for
planning or directing q campaign. We
like to be charitable enough to announce
that it is the decay of mental and physical
powers incident to age, but the conduct Of
the canvass in this portion of the State for
bids that we should accept other than the
first reason presented. General Malone is
the sole cause of the los, of the State.n
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shoemakers, Strike.

ROCHESTER, n Y, Nov. 19.-The State
board of arbitration has for several days
been engaged in endeavoring to avert a
strike of shoemakers, involving 5000 or
5000, hands in consequences Of demand of
the cutters for an advance in wages oftwen-
ty five cents per day and other minor mat
ters The board has arranged for confer.
encs between the manufacturers and em
ployes with prospect of good result.
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ApDOinfn1enf.

ALBANY, N. w. Nov. 19-Governor Hill
oday appointed Mrs. Charlotte s. Williams
of Buffalo, and Mrs. Caroline B. stoddard,
OF Rochester, 90 two of the managers of the
State Insane Asylum at Buffalo, to fill va
cancies. There are large number of female
inmates in the institution and this fact in
duced the Governor to appoint majority
of women managers. The appointments
were urged by numerous organizations of
la1ica
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TIE FEW prominent Offices in the national
administration that have been occupied by
Southern democrats are gradually being
filled by people from more Northern cline.
Mr.. Rives of New York, who was educated
abroad, has been given The place of Assist
ant Secretary of State, that was held by
Gov. Porter of Tennessee, and Mr.. Dickin.
son of Michigan. or Mr.. Stevenson, Of
Illinois, has been offered the vacan-
CIV in the Cabinet to BE- caused by the
transfer of NJ. Lamar of Mississippi to the
Supreme Bench.
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GEN. LEE ON THE ELEcr1oN.-Congress

GEN. LEE ON THE ELEcTIoN.-C Congress-
man W. 81. F. Lee, while at the Treasury
Department in Washington yestesday, said
that the democratic party in his State have
no objection to the republicans taking what.
ever comfort they can get from the fact that
at the recent election their party secured a
trifiing majority of the popular vote. The
main issue in the campaign was to over.
throw Malone, which, he says. was accom-
plished in glorious style. He insists that
Virginia is democratic State. and will
show herself to be such at the next national
election. when the full strength ofthe party
will be brought out.
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The switch1nen,s Strike

Houston, Tex. Nov. 19.-The strike OF
the yards ssitchmeu of the Southern Pr ci6c
Railway, Atlantic system, still continues,
while the passenger traios leave on time.
No freight trains nave departed from the
depot since the strike commenced Yester
day the officials of the road closed the shops
and freight Office at this point and also
closed the large shops at Harrisburg, ak
miles below The Houston and Buffalo Bayou.
The movement on the part of the railroad
company has throwu 300 men out of en-
ployment. The officials say they will not
resume work again uotil the strike ends. a
committee of citizens went 10 the striking
swilcbmen but failed to settle the trouble.
It is believed that all the yard men in Hous-
ton are about 10 ike.
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migrants.

SENATORS HoAR AND DAWES, of Msssa
chusetts are continually harping upon the
illiteracy of the South. But. according TO
the just published returns Of the census OF
Massachusetts, for 1885, the number Of Hitter
ates over ten years of age in that State is
over $4,000, and that, too, though nearly
the entire population there is white. People
who live in glass houses should never throw
stones. But both theSenators referred to have
always been noted for their inability, so far
as relates to Southern matters, to see barn
door, though able to see the fly on that
door.